Commoner Cara’s never ventured far beyond the carpenter’s shop of her intended in her life. Then she meets high born Eric. His father has Eric’s future plotted out, but Eric has other plans and they include Cara.
Cara longs to negate her looming betrothal. But breaking the rules lands Cara in worse trouble than she could have imagined.

July 113 AD. The emperor Trajan has set his sights on the strategically important kingdom of Armenia and has resolved that nothing is going to stop him from waging a war of conquest on a scale not seen since Caesar’s Gallic wars. Summoned to the east, Fergus must turn his soldiers into the finest fighting force in the eastern armies and win back the favour of his patron if he is to save his family

429 B.C. Athens is at war. A plague is spreading across the city. And fifteen-year-old Rhea is facing an arranged marriage with a brutal older man. With time running out, she vows to catch a glimpse of the handsome young athlete Doros. Meanwhile, Maron, a gifted sculptor-slave she has befriended, urges her to shape her own destiny and risk all for love.

Second in the alternate history series Caesar Ascending, which imagines a world where Caesar survives the Ides of March and goes on his planned campaign against Parthia. Caesar Ascending-Conquest of Parthia is the next installment of that story.

A story of friendship and family set in ancient Rome, Gaius Gabinus and his slave, Silvanus, each have their own agenda. Gaius wants revenge for the death of his father. Silvanus wants to reunite his family and restore his freedom. Together they will pursue their respective goals and participate in one of the great moments of ancient Roman history.

Roman princess, Gothic queen—Placidia does the unthinkable—she rules the failing Western Roman Empire—a life of ambition, power and intrigue she doesn’t seek, but can’t refuse. A woman as well as an Empress, Placidia suffers love, loss, and betrayal. Can her strength, tenacity and ambition help her survive and triumph over scheming generals, rebellious children, and Attila the Hun?

The war in Gaul is over, but the fight for Rome is only just beginning. Facing a war against other Romans, with a new officer stirring up trouble, Pompey and the senate defying them, a father-in-law busily incriminating himself and powerful Roman generals consolidating positions against them, Fronto and Galronus are bound for that worst of all conflicts: Civil War.

Socrates sits chained to a wall in a small prison cell. In a month he will die of hemlock poisoning. At night, by the light of a tiny oil lamp, on rolls of paper smuggled in by loyal friends, he tells his three sons the story of his life. Socrates honestly reveals his thoughts and feelings, his successes and his failures, and his search for the answer to the ultimate question—how can I be happy?

Spring 106 AD. Upper Pannonia. As the winter snows finally recede, Fergus, Marcus’s son and Corbulo’s grandson, now a junior officer in the Twentieth Legion, prepares to take part in Emperor Trajan’s Dacian war. As the Legions are ordered across the Danube frontier and into Dacia, the vexillation from the Twentieth will find itself at the sharp end of the war.

BLOOD OF AKHILLES tells the story of the first year in the reign of twenty-year-old Alexander before he became known as the Great, a tale told in part by Alexander’s horse, Boukephalos, the reincarnation of one of Akhilles’ immortal horses from Troy. When King Philip is struck down on his day of triumph, his empire splinters. Alexander avenges his father, crushes all rebellions, and reunites Hella

Rome, 71 B.C.E, Young Tacitus, torn from the girl he loves and accused of defiling his late mother’s temple, is dragooned into the Roman army by his father Gaius, a bitter and unbending Centurion. With his father and seven legions, he joins General Marcus Crassus in an ill-fated attack on the sprawling Parthian Empire. His fate is sealed.

Summer 105 AD. There has been no news from Marcus for over a year. Marcus’s nineteen year old son, Fergus, a soldier, dreams of becoming like his grandfather, Corbulo; a hero of the Legion. And soon opportunity beckons. On the Danube frontier war has broken out between Dacia and the Roman Empire. Dispatched to the front Fergus finds himself embroiled in a vicious, relentless struggle for survival.

A tale of Theseus the Athenian. From a world of light and life he will enter the realms of hell.
Theseus’ childhood years saw him raised in sunlit innocence as a boy of the country, yet well taught in the hard skills of a warrior. On reaching manhood it is revealed to him that his true father is Aegeus, king of ancient Athens. Theseus embarks upon a journey to claim his right as prince and heir.

The Wrong Roman combines information on the construction of the great wall and the antics of two twins who are psychopaths and do everything in their power to disrupt the orderly work on the Wall. The actual methods used in building the Wall are described here. This is a history neatly folded into a mystery-who-done-it that will keep you entertained as well as informed.

It is 50BC and Caesar winters with his legions in the north, all Gaul conquered but a triumphant return to Rome denied him by the senate who seek his blood. Yet unrest stirs in unknown lands as the tribes of mountainous Aquitania rise under a terrifying new leader and drive out their Roman occupiers.

Winter AD 103. Fourteen years have passed since Corbulo's murder and Marcus, veteran soldier of Rome, sets out to avenge his father's death and to find Emogene, the druid who holds all the answers. As he closes in on her, Marcus must decide how far he will go for honour, and whether to follow Emogene to the secretive and mythical land of Hyperborea, an epic sea voyage across the Atlantic ocean.

In ancient India, tragedy strikes a young elephant trainer. Forced into a slave caravan that takes him through perilous lands and into a world at war, Ashoka befriends a special elephant. He and that elephant, Four Nails, together lead Hannibal's army over the Alps and down the back of Rome. Though a time of constant danger and uncertainty in the Second Punic War,